VII. An Essay on the Character of Hamlet, in Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet

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The Character of Hamlet, has been variously judged of by critics, and what might be expected, it has been still more variously represented by performers upon the stage. Shakespeare himself seems to have apprehended that this would happen; and that injustice would be done to a hero, who probably, in his estimation, ranked higher than any other that he has brought into the drama.